Portray vs. Photograph — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Portray and Photograph
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Portray
To depict or represent pictorially; make a picture of
The painter portrays a typical country scene.
Photograph
A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.
Portray
To describe or represent in words
The author portrays the world of the fantastically wealthy.
Photograph
A picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally
A photograph of her father
Portray
To describe or depict in a certain way
The book portrays her as hardworking and driven.
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Photograph
Take a photograph of
She has photographed all of the major ballet companies worldwide
He was commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war
Portray
To represent dramatically, as on the stage
The actor portrays an obsessed lover in the film.
Photograph
An image, especially a positive print, recorded by exposing a photosensitive surface to light, especially in a camera.
Portray
To paint or draw the likeness of.
I will portray a king on horseback.
Photograph
To take a photograph of.
Portray
(figuratively) To represent by an image or look.
Photograph
To practice photography.
Portray
(figuratively) To describe in words; to convey.
Photograph
To be the subject for photographs
She photographs well.
Portray
To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
For my next movie, I will be portraying Shakespeare.
Photograph
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
Portray
(obsolete) To adorn.
Photograph
To take a photograph (of).
Portray
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem.
Photograph
To fix permanently in the memory etc.
Portray
Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
Photograph
(intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
She photographs well. The camera loves her.
Portray
To adorn with pictures.
Spear and helmets thronged, and shieldsVarious with boastful arguments potrayed.
Photograph
A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
Portray
Portray in words;
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person
Photograph
To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.
He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
He is photographed on my mind.
Portray
Make a portrait of;
Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba
Photograph
To practice photography; to take photographs.
Portray
Assume or act the character of;
She impersonates Madonna
The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
Photograph
A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
Portray
Represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;
The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
Photograph
Record on photographic film;
I photographed the scene of the accident
She snapped a picture of the President
Photograph
Undergo being photographed in a certain way;
Children photograph well
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